Is there room for the BBC in the mental lexicon? on the recognition of acronyms

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1832-1842

  Brysbaert, Marc ^a   Speybroeck, Sara ^b   Vanderelst, Dieter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acronym; Associative priming; Masked priming; Mental lexicon; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70449567211     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802585471     Document Type: Article

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